Kharah Ross is a Health Psychologist, with a specialization in maternal-child health and psychoneuroimmunology, or the study of the connections between psychosocial states (e.g., stress, close relationship quality) and immune activity. Her research encompasses three broad areas: (1) Close relationships and health, (2) health disparities at the intersection of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, and (3) understanding normative physiological activity during pregnancy, the postpartum period and early childhood. She was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California—Los Angeles in Psychology (2015–2018), and with the Preterm Birth Initiative at the University of California—San Francisco (2016–2018). She then returned to her hometown, Calgary, AB, where she was an Alberta Innovates—Health Solutions and CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow (2018–2019) at the Owerko Centre in the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary. She joined the Psychology program at Athabasca University in 2019.
